Front fender upper mounting brackets?
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AX- The part your referring to is the bracket which goes on the firewall but actually holds the inner fender and not the outer fender. The two holes in the picture they provide are the two bolt holes where the inner fender bolts up to at the firewall. I believe that bracket is welded to the firewall...
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Originally Posted by AXracer
Picture anyone?
I'd post a pic, but I need my wife's help, because I'm computer stupid. Unfortunatly (in this case), she's in Italy.
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https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...154050.520.390
AX- not a great pic but the bracket is the one mounted on the firewall, just under the heater motor.
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here's another:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...154051.520.390
AX- not a great pic but the bracket is the one mounted on the firewall, just under the heater motor.
ED
here's another:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...154051.520.390
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A PO made the front clip flip, then another converted it back to oem. I'm not sure what was the right way to mount everything, the person that converted it back evidently didn't either. The back end of the inner fender panels were cut off in the original flip conversion, in the return to oem the inner panels were not replaced the just added some strapping to bridge the gap. MF doesn't specify if the parts they are selling were originally welded to the truck. There are mounts for the lower end of the inner fender panels like MF part #1564 L,R but I don't know if there is also a doubler of the same shape that sandwiches the inner panel?
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Isn't that the large angled piece that the triangular tail of the inner fender (the part that's cut off on both of our inner fender panels ) bolts to that MF shows as part # 1564? i don't see the smaller piece # 1563?
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I had the same situation as you, you can see in the pic the PO used a welding torch to cut out the rear of the inner fenders for the tilt front. Fortunately the PO left my brackets alone. I know there is the rear bracket which IS welded to the firewall, there is another bracket which is welded on under the lower portion of the firewall, the part going down to the frame. As far has how the inner fender forms on these brackets, I don't know and maybe some could help. I made my own inner fenders and had to modify the originals slightly to make them fit correctly. The lower ones were in the way and ground them off. Again, I'm not using stock. As far as a bracket, I would think even using a piece of "L" iron would work. Drill your two holes and weld it to the firewall.
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The only piece I can see that 1563 is the small bracket which goes down underneath from the one on the firewall. 1563, however shows two holes in the bracket, the lower one (at least mine) didn't have any holes.????? Did you call MF and ask them? Or did they tell you they didn't know..LOL....
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Originally Posted by mechmagcn
Ax, the upper fender mounting brackets actually are mounted to the cowl and the last bolt on the fender goes through it. I have attached a pic, if you need better, let me know.
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OK, I know I do my best to give advice here, but this is not my fault.You know, I see on Mech's pic. That bracket on the cowl may be the bracket. My truck doesn't have that bracket due to the tilt front end. It was removed. I recall, you needed that bracket to install the reverse tilt hood bracket on the rear of the fender also. One reason I left my hood alone. This could be the 1563 bracket. I know it's welded on too.
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I had to remove the upper brackets from my 53 when relacing the cowls and I'm glad I have the parts truck for reference, I have slept too many times since removal. Here's ashot of the left side.
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